Richard Bacon, the television and radio presenter, is staying in Torquay and has been bombarded with suggestions of where to go for dinner.

The former children's TV presenter has reinvented himself both at home and in the United States as a serious politics pundit. He has presented Panorama and now works for Fox TV and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

But he is back from LA and has headed to Torquay and said he needs a restaurant for dinner - and was promptly inundated with serious and joke suggestions. Sadly many of the ideas either never existed (no Nandos in Torquay), are closed on a Monday (The Elephant), are permanently closed (Hennesys) or are purely fictional (lots of Fawlty Towers references).

Richard Bacon (Image: BBC)

It's not clear from his tweet if he is in Torquay with his family 'gang' or if he is asking his 'gang' of 1.32m Twitter followers for ideas. But within the hour he had received 50 suggestiions.

After leaving Blue Peter, Bacon was rescued by Channel 4’s Big Breakfast, and had a scattergun career on TV and radio in this country before the move to the States after getting advice from his friend the PR guru Matthew Freud. He is a self-declared politics nut who presented 5 Live’s coverage of both Obama wins.

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